Definition of "lady-bug" [lady-bug]

• Alternative spelling of ladybug. (noun)

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• "I have a hoop decorated with lady-bug stickers, which is really cute."
• "A crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with melancholy, seemed to ask nothing better than to weep."
• "He started to go ashore too and as everyone had bundles and baggage, he picked up a small hand bag, an umbrella, a can and a cage filled with butterflies, grasshoppers and a lady-bug."